POLITICO — The Clinton Library released the fourth — and largest so far — batch of documents Friday, filling in details about internal White House deliberations on Hillary Clinton’s health care reform efforts, the infamous “conspiracy commerce” memo detailing their run-ins with right-wing media, and the evolution of speeches ranging from President Bill Clinton’s 1999 State of the Union to jokes for the annual Gridiron Dinner.
Picked apart and isolated, the documents are full of points of light and interest — like Vice President Al Gore’s chief of staff, the 2000 election already in his mind, writing to White House speechwriter Jonathan Prince in 1997, “I am trying to knock down the idea that the Clinton White House’s support for Gore is based on legacy notions, and build up the idea that it is based on respect, relationships and in-the-foxhole camaraderie.”
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Or a memo to Clinton ahead of a trip to New York, as his wife was running for Senate there, about a freshman congressman named Anthony Weiner who’d been an ally to the administration and “the most outspoken and visible member of Congress in support of Hillary’s candidacy.”
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